evergreen plant plants play more than the peach of immature leafage all year long . The plants also bring heyday in the leap and food for wildlife in the fall and winter . In Arkansas , where the USDA hardiness zone range from zona 6 to zone 8 , gardeners prefer from evergreen plant plant that are hardy as far northward as Long Island and as far south as Northern Florida . Arkansas gardener also have to take into consideration the five different types of soil in the state : the fine - grain , fertile soil of the Delta , the silt and sedimentary soil of Crowley ’s Ridge , the sandlike loam alone the Coastal Plain , the shale and sandstone of the Ouachitas and finally the limestone of the Ozarks . The hardiness zone can not be alter , but the soils can be meliorate to lodge most flora .

Yaupon

Yaupon ( Ilex vomitoria ) is also roll in the hay as yaupon holly and is an evergreen plant shrub or small tree that grows from 20 to 25 metrical unit tall . The industrial plant feature minor , 1 - column inch farseeing saturnine - dark-green leaves and little , abundant white flowers that bloom in outpouring produce nigh to the stem . The plant will be either male or female and one of each is needed for the female plant to raise the diminished red berry that remain on the tree diagram through the winter . Plant yaupon in full Sunday , fond shade or full shade and in a dirt that is dampish to wet . In Arkansas , the bush is hardy in geographical zone 8A in the southern part of the state . Birds and wildlife will make a repast out of the Chuck Berry in the winter .

Shortleaf Pine

Shortleaf pine ( Pinus echinata P. Mill ) is an evergreen plant Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree that grows from 50 to 100 metrical unit marvellous with unretentive branch that create a Pyramids of Egypt - shaped summit . The tree diagram is widespread throughout the South and is unfearing in all of Arkansas . The brilliant - light-green needles grow to be 5 inches retentive , yellow flowers blossom in February and March and are adopt by reddish - brown pine cones . Plant shortleaf pine tree in partial shade and a juiceless , sandy dirt . Small beast and raspberry will make a repast out of the seed released by the cones .

Carolina Yellow Jasmine

Carolina lily-livered jasmine ( Gelsemium sempervirens ) is also experience as jessamine and is a extremity of the logania home . The plant is an evergreen vine that develop more than 20 pes recollective with tenuous , oblong green leaves that mature from 2 to 3 inches long and fragrant , yellow-bellied , 2 - inch prospicient tube - shaped flower that grow from later winter to other give . Plant Carolina yellow jasmine in fond shade for the plant to get hold of its full length . works in full sun to get a short , shrubby bush . The plant need a moist soil or it will fall back its leaves . The vine is stout in central and southern Arkansas .

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